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To Your Eternity 25 (Fumetsu no Anata e, #25)

by Yoshitoki Oima

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葬送のフリーレン 12 [Sōsō no Frieren 12]

by Kanehito Yamada

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To Your Eternity 24

by Yoshitoki Oima

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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting

1120 likes

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion

1554 likes

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

tags: inspirational, motivational, necessary, possibility, profound, science, truth

89 likes

“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

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